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Colonial goods IX: Fortunately not yet banned
In the long and eventful history of Indo-European languages, there have been various sound shifts in the consonants, one of the most striking of which is the divergence of H (e.g. in Greek) to S (e.g. in Latin). Therefore, six in Greek also means hex, in Latin sex (but the Greeks had hex neither with boys nor with hetaera, as far as known). In addition, the Romans seasoned their soups with sal, the Greeks (and probably the Celts as well), on the other hand, with neck-neck. It is therefore assumed that all the German place names with "Hall" originated from the fact that salt was mined there, which (for example, near Bad Reichenhall) makes sense.
In Hall in Tyrol, about 10 kilometres from the provincial capital Innsbruck, salt was also extracted over the centuries, until (probably only after the Second World War) the salt works were closed. At about the same time, perhaps even because the founder had to look for a new job after the salt was gone, "Kosmetik R. Neuner 66-60" opened in 1953 in the centre of the town as a small family business for down-to-earth cosmetics (such as foot balms for the stressed housewife and the exhausted mountaineer). I have not found out what this strange number combination stands for, but it is probably not about Hatanism. From the first year on, this company offered two men's fragrances, namely "Alt-Innsbruck" (also available in a normal bottle without a plunger) and "Strawanza Wiener Schurken", which here on Parfumo, however, are registered as belonging to two different brands (for whatever reason - the brand "Proderma", which probably was once an internal sub-brand of R. Neuner, doesn't exist anymore in my opinion). So if you are looking for a real niche, manufacturing with tradition, you have come to the right place. R. Neuner also advertises on its website that its products have been free of animal testing for 50 years because they have always been tested directly on humans. The Tyrolean is himself.
Actually, I wanted to give Alt-Innsbruck 7.5 points because it only has a very simple recipe. It's not a complex scent, and I wanted to leave enough air up for the great works of art of German spice colognialism such as "Tabac Original" by Mäurer and Wirtz. But why the heck? Colognes must be, well, at least they are allowed to be, simply knitted. That's why I give 8 points, and there's nothing to be gained from sympathy, because even after three, four, hours a cloud of it still blows around my nose, and I like it better every time. There was almost even more in it
The cologne (and certainly the aftershave lotion, too, which is also available) smells exactly like what is indicated as fragrances: menthol and Virginia tobacco. In my days as a (cigarette) smoker, I liked to smoke both filterless Virginia cigarettes (e.g. Sweet Afton) and occasionally menthol cigarettes (e.g. Kool); the latter experience is no longer possible for the younger ones because the stuff is now forbidden. From this I can confirm that the scent has a very authentic smell of light brown (almost blonde), fresh, moist Virginia tobacco and of strongly dosed, but also light, unobtrusive menthol. Nevertheless, I don't think that there are any cigarette associations that come to mind (not smoked ones anyway, but not even unsmoked ones). This is neither aggressive menthol cold (unlike in ICE of 4711, which is too weird for me) nor chimney fire-like herbage. The cool, rather hard scent of menthol enters into a congenial synthesis with the warm, soft tobacco scent, from which something very special emerges, a highly characterful, at the same time very bright, light and peculiarly fresh scent, which manages to come across as cooling and warming (even minimally sweet) on the skin at the same time. So a kind of olfactory thermal clothing.
I think Alt-Innsbruck is a great success, an extremely simple recipe that hopefully will never be changed. I have been laughed at several times here for my conviction that "Tabac Original" is also wearable by young men. I'd like to go one better and say that I can imagine Old Innsbruck to be especially good for young men and (because of its cheerful lightness) also for young women. This is absolutely no old man's scent, as true as I am an old man. And when R. Neuner advertises the fragrance on his website with the image of a man who is being approached by a woman in curlers with a seductive smile, I think that is a successful irony.
I am very happy that I ordered this water as a bottling for testing and commenting in this series and I will use up the 10 ml with enthusiasm; I would even consider a repeat order in Hall in Tirol (but without the plunger, which is too violent even for me).
In Hall in Tyrol, about 10 kilometres from the provincial capital Innsbruck, salt was also extracted over the centuries, until (probably only after the Second World War) the salt works were closed. At about the same time, perhaps even because the founder had to look for a new job after the salt was gone, "Kosmetik R. Neuner 66-60" opened in 1953 in the centre of the town as a small family business for down-to-earth cosmetics (such as foot balms for the stressed housewife and the exhausted mountaineer). I have not found out what this strange number combination stands for, but it is probably not about Hatanism. From the first year on, this company offered two men's fragrances, namely "Alt-Innsbruck" (also available in a normal bottle without a plunger) and "Strawanza Wiener Schurken", which here on Parfumo, however, are registered as belonging to two different brands (for whatever reason - the brand "Proderma", which probably was once an internal sub-brand of R. Neuner, doesn't exist anymore in my opinion). So if you are looking for a real niche, manufacturing with tradition, you have come to the right place. R. Neuner also advertises on its website that its products have been free of animal testing for 50 years because they have always been tested directly on humans. The Tyrolean is himself.
Actually, I wanted to give Alt-Innsbruck 7.5 points because it only has a very simple recipe. It's not a complex scent, and I wanted to leave enough air up for the great works of art of German spice colognialism such as "Tabac Original" by Mäurer and Wirtz. But why the heck? Colognes must be, well, at least they are allowed to be, simply knitted. That's why I give 8 points, and there's nothing to be gained from sympathy, because even after three, four, hours a cloud of it still blows around my nose, and I like it better every time. There was almost even more in it
The cologne (and certainly the aftershave lotion, too, which is also available) smells exactly like what is indicated as fragrances: menthol and Virginia tobacco. In my days as a (cigarette) smoker, I liked to smoke both filterless Virginia cigarettes (e.g. Sweet Afton) and occasionally menthol cigarettes (e.g. Kool); the latter experience is no longer possible for the younger ones because the stuff is now forbidden. From this I can confirm that the scent has a very authentic smell of light brown (almost blonde), fresh, moist Virginia tobacco and of strongly dosed, but also light, unobtrusive menthol. Nevertheless, I don't think that there are any cigarette associations that come to mind (not smoked ones anyway, but not even unsmoked ones). This is neither aggressive menthol cold (unlike in ICE of 4711, which is too weird for me) nor chimney fire-like herbage. The cool, rather hard scent of menthol enters into a congenial synthesis with the warm, soft tobacco scent, from which something very special emerges, a highly characterful, at the same time very bright, light and peculiarly fresh scent, which manages to come across as cooling and warming (even minimally sweet) on the skin at the same time. So a kind of olfactory thermal clothing.
I think Alt-Innsbruck is a great success, an extremely simple recipe that hopefully will never be changed. I have been laughed at several times here for my conviction that "Tabac Original" is also wearable by young men. I'd like to go one better and say that I can imagine Old Innsbruck to be especially good for young men and (because of its cheerful lightness) also for young women. This is absolutely no old man's scent, as true as I am an old man. And when R. Neuner advertises the fragrance on his website with the image of a man who is being approached by a woman in curlers with a seductive smile, I think that is a successful irony.
I am very happy that I ordered this water as a bottling for testing and commenting in this series and I will use up the 10 ml with enthusiasm; I would even consider a repeat order in Hall in Tirol (but without the plunger, which is too violent even for me).
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